well, in the end there should be an office suit on it (preferably OOo) and a browser (preferably FF)
I know, another 64mb of ram will do miracles
another difficulty is the notebook does not have an integrated lan port and I'm trying to get my old Level 1 pcmcia card running... xubuntu does recognize it but the install process "stops" at configuring anthy... whatever that is...
I'm not sure if debian will recognize it... I thought maybe a debian install with flushbox could work.